04/19/17

Good Evening, More reversals! Yesterday the market started off weak and closed strong and today it opened strong and closed weak. All that volatility and it still remains in the same old trading range. Eventually it’ll break out of this one way or they other and we’ll react to what ever it does. One things for sure. No ones making a lot of money right now. News seems to effect the trading for a short period of time but the market always ends up doing what it wanted to anyway. There is very little emotion driving the market these days. In the old days fear and greed kept it moving one way or the other. Now it’s mostly computer programmers and their algorithms all designed to fake us humans out. No emotion! I don’t like it but knowing that allows us to at least make better decisions.

The days action left us with the following results: Our TSP allotment dropped -0.41%. For comparison, the Dow lost -0.58%, the Nasdaq gained +0.23% and the S&P lost -0.17%.

 

S&P 500, Dow End at Session Lows After IBM Disappointment, Crude Slump

 

The days action left us with the following signals: C-Neutral, S-Buy, I-Neutral, F-Neutral. We are currently invested at 100/I. Our allocation is now +1.71% not including todays results. Here are the latest posted results:

04/18/17 Prior Prices
Fund G Fund F Fund C Fund S Fund I Fund
Price 15.2941 17.8288 32.4907 42.402 26.1804
$ Change 0.0010 0.0650 -0.0937 -0.0009 -0.1862
% Change day +0.01% +0.37% -0.29% +0.00% -0.71%
% Change week +0.03% +0.29% +0.57% +1.08% -0.28%
% Change month +0.12% +1.24% -0.78% -1.09% -0.87%
% Change year +0.71% +2.18% +5.24% +3.43% +6.42%
  L INC L 2020 L 2030 L 2040 L 2050
Price 18.7263 25.1393 27.8257 29.8682 17.0773
$ Change -0.0091 -0.0305 -0.0574 -0.0732 -0.0486
% Change day -0.05% -0.12% -0.21% -0.24% -0.28%
% Change week +0.12% +0.19% +0.27% +0.32% +0.35%
% Change month -0.01% -0.20% -0.42% -0.53% -0.64%
% Change year +1.72% +2.70% +3.69% +4.17% +4.60%

 

Now lets take a look at the charts. All signals are annotated with green circles. If you click on the charts they will become larger.

 

C Fund:

 

S Fund:

 

I Fund:

 

F Fund:

 

Right now I’d have to give a slight edge to the bears. That’s all for tonight. Have a great evening and I’ll see you tomorrow!

God bless, Scott 8-)
 
 ***Just a reminder that you can review the performance of our allocation at the Web Site TSPTALK.com in the autotracker section under the screen name KyFan1.
 
 
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Scott Grimes

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